If you want to encrypt a whole USB stick, an external hard disk or a whole hard disk’s partition you have to click on Create Volume button and choose Create a volume within a partition/drive on the window that appear, then follow the instructions.Īfter this operation, when you will connect the USB stick or the hard disk to your PC it won’t happen anything, nothing will be mounted If you want to access to the encrypted volume you have to select it and mount it using VeraCrypt.īoth in the case of the encrypted file container and the encrypted volume during the creation VeraCrypt will ask you the kind of the file system to use for the volume to create: FAT, ext2, ext4, … To do it you have to click on the Create Volume button, then choose Create an encrypted file container on the window that will appear and follow the instructions. It’s possible to use VeraCrypt to make a container that you can mount like a virtual disk and so you can register all the documents you want. Uninstallation sudo /usr/bin/veracrypt-uninstall.sh To make an encrypted containerĪ container is an encrypted file where you can store other files or folders. Now it’s enough to write VeraCrypt in the Dash to find the icon and start it. Then extract it and copy the file veracrypt-*-setup-gui-圆4 or veracrypt-*-setup-gui-x86 into the home folder, and finally execute the following commands: chmod +x veracrypt-* Installation/Uninstallation VeraCrypt on Linux Installationĭownload the package from the VeraCrypt’s site in the folder that you prefer.
It’s opensource and multi-platform, so, you can use it on Linux, Mac OSXx and Windows. It’s a good solution to encrypt a disk, a disk partition or also a single folder. VeraCrypt is one of the many forks of the TrueCrypt project which was abbandoned few months ago.
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Now, how to encrypt an hard disk? VeraCrypt
In this situation, if the disk is encrypted you will lose only its economic value, but if it isn’t encrypted everybody can have access to his information!!! For example: if I use an hard disk for backups and I often stay in places where there are a lot of people (offices, public transports and so on), there is a high risk of it being stolen or lost. The answer is quite easy, I need to encrypt an hard disk or an USB stick if I use it to save important information and this device is accessible easily from many people. In this article I want to tell how to encrypt an USB stick or an external hard disk, but first I want to explain why. In another post I wrote about how to encrypt a folder using Gnome EncFS Manager on Linux.
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